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The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angell, Marcia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States--Costs.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Drugs--Prices--United States.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Prices.
- Advertising--Drugs.
- Drugs--Research.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Drugs--Research--United States--Finance.
- Prescription pricing--United States.
- Prescription pricing.
- Advertising--Drugs--United States.
- Advertising.
- Pharmaceutical policy--United States.
- Pharmaceutical policy.
- Drug Industry--economics.
- Prescription Fees.
- Drug Costs.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics.
- Marketing.
- Health Policy--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--economics.
- United States.
- Prescription Fees.
- Drug Costs.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics.
- Marketing.
- Advertising.
- Health Policy--history.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 319 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2005]
- Summary:
- In this explosive expose of the drug companies and how they are ripping us off, Marcia Angell, M.D., a doctor, medical journalist, and a former editor of the respected New England Journal of Medicine, reveals the many ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has moved away from its original purpose of finding and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine that produces drugs of questionable benefit, the industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt such institutions as the U.S. Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), academic medical centers, as well as the medical profession. In spite of a lack of innovative drugs and continuously growing prices, the drug companies invest most of their time and money in marketing, legal maneuvers to extend patient rights, and government lobbying to prevent price regulation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375760946
- 9780375760945
- OCLC:
- 61361673
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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